substitutability

English

Etymology

From substitute +‎ -ability.

Noun

substitutability (countable and uncountable, plural substitutabilities)

  1. The quality of being substitutable; the capacity to be substituted.
    • 1988, Joseph Tainter, “Summary and Implications”, in The Collapse of Complex Societies, Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, →ISBN, page 212:
      One problem with the principle of infinite substitutability is that it does not apply, in any simple fashion, to investments in organizational complexity.

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